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New Report Could Hamstring Palestine Advocacy in Britain’s Largest Student Organization

Long a platform for anti-Zionist politics in the UK, the National Union of Students has agreed to limit speech about Israel/Palestine.

Dahlia Krutkovich
Review
Who Will Power the Climate Revolution?
Two new books exemplify divergent approaches to the climate crisis. But who are the revolutionary subjects positioned to enact them?
Dylan Saba
Dispatch
Shmita Means Total Destroy
A manifesto from the threatened Atlanta forest
Fayer Collective
Report
How a Giant of Responsible Investing Agreed to an Israel Exception
After a multi-year campaign by Jewish groups, Morningstar—a major firm known for socially responsible investing—is softening its approach to Israeli human rights abuses.
Mari Cohen
Poetry
The Store
“the floors we cleaned, / the money we made to pay off / ownable things”
Mario Chard
Chevruta
What Is Debt and When Can We Refuse to Pay?
An investigation through Jewish text.
Allen Lipson
Report
J Street’s Balancing Act Comes Under Pressure
The liberal Zionist organization is proving too critical of Israel for the mainstream Democratic establishment it courts—and not critical enough for its own constituency.
Alex Kane
Analysis
Antisemitic Zionists Aren’t a Contradiction in Terms
Pundits express surprise when antisemitism and Zionism overlap, but the ideologies share much in common—and many adherents.
Peter Beinart
Newsletter
The Harvard Kennedy School’s Anti-Palestinian Bias
The elite institution reversed course on refusing a fellowship to a prominent Israel critic, but for students, its suppression of Palestine speech is ongoing.
Joseph Leone
Responsa
Days of Rest
On anti-work politics and the meaning of Shabbat
The Editors
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From the Newsletter
Israeli Right Plans to Erode Palestinians’ Residency Rights
The right-wing security cabinet announced intentions to revoke fundamental benefits from families of those convicted of terrorism.
Elisheva Goldberg
“My Body Lives in History”
The author Aleksandar Hemon on writing the body at war and his Sarajevan Jewish protagonist.
Sasha Senderovich
Planting a Palestinian Flag at Israel’s Anti-Government Protests
A group of activists are pushing weekly pro-democracy protesters to stop ignoring the occupation.
Alex Kane
Biden’s Education Department Delays Defining Campus Antisemitism
To the relief of Palestinian-rights advocates, the department’s Office for Civil Rights did not adopt the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism this past December.
Alex Kane
Current Issue Winter 2022
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    Playing Jewish
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    The Passion of 964 Park Place
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    Point of No Return
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    Terms of Entry
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    Deborah Lipstadt vs. “The Oldest Hatred”
  6. 6
    Bela’s Pilgrim
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    Revisiting Recitatif
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    More Life
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    The Many Oblivions of Babi Yar
  10. 10
    Eric Adams’s Moral Panics
Responsa
Beyond Grievance
Though it may be a potent political tool, grievance can also maintain our investment in our own oppression.
Arielle Angel
Justice You Shall Pursue
The religious tenor of public mourning for RBG reveals a conflation of Jewishness with American liberalism, which forecloses the possibility of reckoning with either.
The Editors
How Not to Fight Antisemitism
By appropriating the right’s strategy on antisemitism, the Jewish left has trapped itself in an empty discourse—and a counterproductive pose of victimhood.
The Editors
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Palestinians Carry Belongings After Israeli Demolitions in West Bank Village
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Palestinians carry their belongings after Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian houses in the West Bank village of Duma, near the city of Nablus, on February 2nd. In the first five weeks of this year, Israeli forces have destroyed 132 Palestinian... more
Report
The Gamified Occupation
A Fauda-themed escape room in Tel Aviv gives customers a taste of military rule.
Sophia Goodfriend
Report
Palestine Is a Proxy Fight in a Fractious DSA
With a sizable gap between the left’s demand for Palestinian liberation and the pro-Israel tack of national politics, Palestine takes center stage in arguments about discipline and electoralism.
Alex Kane

Letters from Our Readers

On “The Sanitizing of Conservative Judaism”
Allen Lipson’s article thoughtfully charts how Conservative synagogues were used as tools for the deradicalization of Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants in America. Partly as a result of this push to assimilate... more
Guy Tabachnick
New York, NY
On “A Pantomimed Reckoning”
Without diminishing Hazem Fahmy’s overarching analysis and conclusions in “A Pantomimed Reckoning,” I would like to offer two points that complicate the issues under consideration, and perhaps suggest that the... more
Asaf Koliner
Jerusalem
Report

The Fight for the Future of Israel Studies

Donors view Israel studies as a vehicle for countering Palestine activism on campus. But many of the scholars they fund don’t toe the line.

Mari Cohen